Pasta Chilaquiles-Style
Black Beans, Salsa Verde, Fried Eggs
I got such a kick out of an email from Bon Appétit today: “If you take a photo of something in a cast-iron pan, it increases your engagement by 132 percent.”
Anyone who knows and loves the flavors of classic Mexican “chilaquiles” will fall for this dish where rigatoni stands in for corn tortillas. Chilaquiles is traditionally made of fried tortillas smothered in salsa (green or red) and garnished with cheese. Eggs, avocado, onion, sour cream, beans, chicken, cilantro and a whole host of other ingredients can be incorporated into the dish. It is designed to use up leftover ingredients.
I served it in a cast-iron pan! Yay for “engagement.” And the pan is no less a collector’s item. Griswold manufactured high-quality cast-iron cookware in Erie, Pennsylvania beginning in 1865. The plant closed in 1957.
This Griswold #14 pan is between 60 and 77 years old. Due to the size of the logo, we know the pan was produced somewhere between 1940 and 1957. Older Griswold cast-iron skillets have a larger logo.